Putting the pieces together

September 9^th – September 15^th

Now that the dust has settled from starting school, it was time to get work.  We had a total of 105 students that need to retake the STAAR English 1 End of Course Exam.  The ELA-EOC Task Force that is comprised of Liz Svadlenak (English Dept. Chair), Jordan Cappetta (Instructional Specialist), Mary Eisenmann (Dean of instruction and Facilities), Mary Cagle (Assistant Principal – English) and I (Administration Intern, Special Education Teacher, Head Wrestling Coach).  Our first meeting of the week was on Tuesday, September 11^th.  We discussed total English teacher workload and created a tutorials schedule.  I have attached the schedule below.  There will be a total of 20 days instruction that additional instruction will be provided.  We decided on Wednesday/ Thursday for after school, because there is an after school bus.  The second meeting was on Thursday, September 13^th.  We delegated that I would create a spreadsheet based on objective deficiencies.  We would also need to separate by reading, writing, or both.   The third meeting of the week was just between Mrs. Cagle and I on Friday, September 14^th.  We discussed how the spreadsheet would be designed and the relevant information that was needed.  On Saturday I created the spreadsheet and entered all competency scores.